PhD tandems Kick-off meeting

Wednesday 10 Sept 2025, 18:00 → 20:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

This will be our first meeting to start our PhD network. During this meeting, we will get to know each other and put together all the ideas to start our collaborations. The goal of this meeting is to network, set all our goals for the project and start organizing.

Please, sign up if you wish to participate in the event. 

Location: ideaSquare, building 3179/R-E06

 

 

---------------

Outcome from this meeting below:

Next meeting will be in 2 weeks. We will have a PPT-Karaoke!! 

Ideas for next meetings and events:

• Socializing events: Cooking Dinner; PPT Karaoke; Going Out (grab a beer); Speed Dating
• Thematic Events: Present a paper; Discuss a topic (any topic); PhD thematic ... tomorrow? academia?
• Coding: Starting from the topics of interest we can organize minicourses or join the ones in IDEASquare

Ideas/Actions to reach out people:

1. Flyers
2. Bulletin paragraph attend newcomers Events
3. WIT
4. Website (Canva or similars) 

18:00 → 18:15 Introduction: all the W's

This presentation will showcase the groundsbase of the project: what the initiative is about, why it is important and who is it aimed for.

Speaker: Ms Camila Rocio Pedano Medina (University of Applied Sciences (DE))

PhD tandem program.pdf

PhD tandem program.pptx

18:15 → 19:30 Roundtable

We will continue with our personal slides to introduce ourselves and present our interests.

19:30 → 20:00 Workshop: activity proposal

This session will be a space for participants to suggest activities they’d like to see in the program and take part in.